On April 18th, 2014 I attempted to file a complaint with the San Pablo Police for being Gangstalked in their city. When the Officer showed up, instead of taking my complaint he decided to violate my civil rights by subjecting me to an unjust and unnecessary civil commitment (5150 WIC). I was released in less than three hours because I obviously did not meet the requirements of being gravely disabled, neither a threat to myself nor the public, when evaluated by psychiatrists. This Officer smirked as he questioned me about my mental health history, as if he had just won the lottery. I suppose if your police department actively engages in Gang Stalking, then having a victim of Gang Stalking thrown into the looney bin and hopefully discredited is a huge victory of sorts for you. Well, I guess a tiny Podunk police agency infected with traitors probably wouldn’t be aware that most of the nation (and the world at large) is catching onto the treasonous crime of Gang Stalking. They probably think they still have the trust and good will of the people too. I suppose that is why they didn’t hesitate to do something so blatently obvious by trashing my Constitutional Rights in an attempt to hide their Gang Stalking complicity. They should think again.

More and more people know what Gang Stalking, Organized Stalking, Mobbing and COINTELPRO are all about. A critical mass of people on their way down to the gutter are waking up to the fact, that they are nothing more than slaves and have a big, government boot on their necks. Edward Snowden wasn’t the first to alert us of the tyranny, but thank God he was the loudest. People are beginning to understand that we are not free and that we desperately need to do something about it. My complaint about Gang Stalking coupled with the subsequent complaint of my Civil Rights being trampled upon is just the start of what I hope to be a very loud and noisy contest. We have to do more than wake up people, we need to act. Not in the future nor even now but RIGHT NOW, this very instant.

UPDATE: January 30th, 2015

And here it is, the expected rejection letter. I was told by attorney’s that this was prerequisite before filing a lawsuit. Now, I need to find a Constitutional lawyer/s with a cause. It should’nt be so easy to lose all legal standing as a human being just because you availed yourself of any mental health treatment in the past. Anyone who has ever been counseled, had therapy or received any treatment from a mental health worker in the past can have all of their civil liberties maliciously stripped from them just as I did. The set of California codes that make this possible is terribly abused by both private individuals (spouses), and “professionals” as well (Health Care Workers, Landlords, Cops, Gang Stalkers).

I feel it my duty not only as a patriot but also as a good American to see this violation rectified. The Lanterman Petris Short Act (LPS Act) must be wholly rescinded in California, since it is employed as a weapon of oppression favored by both state actors and petty tyrants alike.

As we have seen from past history, as California does, so goes the rest of the country. You really don’t want to be this vulnerable to the caprices of anyone with an accusation , do you?

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Rejection letter for my claim against the City of San Pablo for violating my Civil Liberties, dated January 16th, 2015. 99 days after submission of my claim.

And here we have the icing on the cake, the police absolving themselves. How many times have we seen this before?

Well, at least I can say one thing, any defense attorney will tell you to never admit that you were in the wrong. In the wrong however, is exactly what Richmond Police Dispatch in collusion with the San Pablo Police Department were. As you will see from the committing officer’s (San Pablo Police Officer Justin Gatlin) 5150 application, Richmond Dispatch told him I was a possible nut job.

What a joke considering that the Richmond Police supposedly have a policy specifically to prevent Gang Stalking, authored by supposed Targeted Individual Renata Murry and others. Ha, SHE IS A GANGSTALKER! So Richmond PD now has this bogus policy that is supposed to prevent Gang Stalking, but then their dispatcher labels you as a nut job if you complain about being Gang Stalked and sends an officer to involuntarily commit you.

See the box at the bottom blacked out that says I’m a possible “danger to others”? If that were the case, why haven’t I been arrested in over ten years? Why have I not been arrested almost a year since this fiasco? Why have I not hurt anyone in any way in twenty five years? I haven’t been dangerous in over two decades!

A danger to others?? The picture below is exactly how I looked on the day San Pablo Police Officer Justin Gatlin thought (in his personal opinion) that I was a possible danger to others. Does the man pictured below look like a dangerous lunatic to you? People that were arriving at the San Pablo Police station actually thought that I was a Cop! The EMT’s that arrived in the ambulance (totally ridiculous) actually had anxiety attacks when I started to get into the back of the ambulance since I looked just like one of them! They were both Iraq War Veterans and the sight of watching me getting into the back of the ambulance actually caused them to have flashbacks, like I was a fellow fallen warrior or something. I actually felt bad for them. A danger to others? Yeah, good call Officer Gatlin. Thanks a lot Richmond PD Dispatch, your anti-harassment policy is crap.

Exactly how I looked on the day the officer had me involuntarily committed for attempting to file a complaint about being gangstalked in the city of San Pablo. Pics taken the day after.

Oh, and by the way, my “assault” was actually self-defense. It was 1985, I was 18, homeless and very drunk when I walked into an AT&T building in downtown Oakland to use the bathroom. It was very late and the security guard was very rude. He began to approach me in a hostile manner and I pulled out my knife to keep him away. He advanced on me anyway and I couldn’t get the door open to escape. I was trapped as far as I knew. The security guard continued to advance until he was upon me, he then grabbed the wrist of the hand holding the knife! Who does that? As I reflexively pulled my arm away, the knife cut him on the palm. He then retreated from me.

Now angry for what I had just been put through, I broke a window on the way out with my elbow. The whole thing was so unnecessary, I just wanted to use the bathroom. I was tired of being abused just because I was a homeless teen.

If my story sounds dubious, just think about it. How do you cut someone on the palm of their hand? Possibly a defensive wound but that would more likely result in the forearm being injured. If you grab someone’s wrist who is fending you off with a knife and they pull their arm back, the knife will almost surely catch your hand.

My mom didn’t know anything about the criminal laws and all my Public Defender wanted to do was plead me out since the security guard had witnesses and I did not. There was probably a camera but I never heard of any film. All I had wanted to do was to use the bathroom, I was homeless and needed to pee.

What kind of a dufus advances on a guy holding a knife trying to get out the door anyway? When does it make sense to try to disarm him, why not just let him leave? A Wanna-be maybe?

Anyway, that is my one “assault”, twenty five years ago, which was really self-defense if I could have afforded a decent lawyer, not the “Public Pretender” who plead me out like just another number.

This is the ancient incident that Officer Gatlin thought made me dangerous? Can you even remember what you were doing twenty five years ago? I’m still being punished for this? Even after eight months in jail (first offender), $2,000 restitution, three years psychological therapy and three years of formal probation, twenty five years ago? No violence since then? In fact, you never finish paying your “debt” to society after an offense, it actually gets worse as time goes by no matter how good you are (Three Strikes Law makes an old assault a “Strike”).

What incentive do you have to rehabilitate if that is the case? I guess the Prison Industry and law enforcement needs a steady supply of slave labor and snitches. How better to meet that demand than by making you a criminal for the rest of your life not matter how good your behavior. No wonder convict recidivism is so high, you might as well be wearing a lifelong “Scarlet A”. That system makes us all far less safe.

With judgement like that, no wonder a San Pablo Officer recently allowed a Bayfair Market Store owner to bleed out while he did nothing but take pictures. Even I would do something to help an innocent man who had just been shot five times, especially if he was pleading for help. I’ve seen people rush to the aid of a stabbing victim by pulling off their own jackets to try to stop the bleeding, with their bare hands no less (I had nothing to do with the stabbing, by the way. I just happened to be walking home and saw it).

SPPD Officer takes pictures while gunshot victim pleads for help

I guess San Pablo PD is lacking in both good judgment nor compassion. Perhaps all those federal grants have bought their humanity. What a shame for us all.

They’ve been shafting the San Pablo citizenry for a long time now, THEY SEEM TO THE ONES WHO ARE A DANGER TO OTHERS.

Can anyone say “BART Police”? What is it with these tiny police agencies anyway? Are all of them grossly incompetant?

And finally, here is the actual evaluation itself for which I was thrown into the loony bin for. It shows that I was exhibiting nothing but normal behavior. Not a threat to myself, certainly not a threat to anyone else and I definitely was not gravely disabled (unable to care for myself). In the Psychiatrists professional opinion, I exhibited none of the three behaviors required to involuntarily commit someone under the Lanterman Petris Act (LPS).

This means one of only two things. Either San Pablo Police Officer Justin Gatlin’s judgement was so poor that he cannot tell when someone is a danger or not or, he was complicit in the Gang stalking.

I went to the San Pablo Police Department to report being Gang Stalked by them, after all.

If it can happen to me, it can happen to you too. It can happen to anyone you know, just because someone wants to put you away for good. We are all in danger with this LPS Act on the books, this is the very same thing they did in Germany about eighty-five years ago with the Ministry Of Health and and the SS… Seig Heil!

In the History of Presenting Illness it states, “They found sets of knife in his bag…” The police did not “find” knives in my bag, I told them that I had knives in a toolbag strapped to my luggage cart, when asked if I had any weapons on me. My response was “No, I don’t have any weapons on my body but I do have knives in a bag on my cart.” As you can see by the numerous misspellings and grammatical errors in the Intake Evaluation Report, they got a few things wrong. I truthfully told the police that I had knives packed away, when asked about weapons. I came to them, after all. In addition, I do not receive “SSI”. SSI is a State Of California disability insurance program administered by the Social Security Administration, I recieve no SSI payments, I recieve Social Security only. People who recieve California’s SSI payments are not required to have any work history, just a medical determination of being disabled and unable to work. To recieve Social Security alone such as I do, you have to have been employed and contributed an amount sufficient to receive over $860.00. I have worked for most of my adult life, even while homeless.

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I used to have ALL endorsements including Hazardous Materials, but when 911 happened the DOT took the HazMat from everyone. I never bothered to re-apply for something I had already had, for $120 more.

As you can see, I’ve corrected my mistakes and rehabilitated myself despite being in a Gang Stalking death program since the age of at least 16. I was probably marked from birth. Anyway, for all my efforts at becoming a decent person, I get to have the police and our government torture me to death.

America is near death people, even Donald Trump has said as much. We are being overrun by Devil worshiping Nazis too stupid not to follow a man already condemned to death (Satan). Soon the Sixth Seal will be opened and that Man of Sin will be here on Earth. You Gang Stalkers will get what’s coming to you soon enough if you don’t come to your senses.

Jesus has his hand extended, you better take it while you can. Tomorrow is promised to no one. You have absolutely no idea the horrors awaiting you if you don’t, forever and ever more.

Humans are the weakest things in Hell and have the worst condition there because we look like God (his image).

The City Of San Pablo, California is demanding that Senior Citizens waive all rights and agree to be commercially exploited, JUST TO USE THE SENIOR CENTER!

Membership and registration requirements are new. Taxpayer dollars (public funds) are used to run the San Pablo Senior Center and it should be free to use by all senior city residents without restrictions nor a waiver of legal rights. What kind of fascist policies are San Pablo Administrators cooking up? Are we Nazi Germany now?

“Your papers, show us your papers!”

The city’s webpage for the Senior Center. Why should a membership that waives legal rights be required to use city property paid for by tax dollars? Is this Agenda 21 in action? Dominance from cradle to grave.

Membership and registration requirements are new. Taxpayer dollars (public funds) are used to run the San Pablo Senior Center and it should be free to use by all senior city residents without restrictions nor a waiver of legal rights. What kind of fascist policies are San Pablo Administrators cooking up? Are we Nazi Germany now?

“Your papers, show us your papers!”

The City Of San Pablo, California is demanding that Senior Citizens waive all rights and agree to be commercially exploited, JUST TO USE THE SENIOR CENTER!

Pakistan: Seeking Dignity for All

“Women do not receive social support. The whole society has to work it out.”

“Children must be taught to live in a diverse society.”

Jan. 22, Thu.

The issue of human rights for women in Pakistan has drawn fresh attention since Malala Yousafzai was chosen to share last year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Yet violence and abuse against women are still serious social problems. Lawyer and human rights activist Hina Jilani has led the fight for human rights for Pakistan’s women for 30 years. She established Pakistan’s first all-female legal practice and helps women who have fled from abuse. She has received international recognition for her work and led the UN’s human rights agency. We ask Jilani how Pakistan can become a country where everyone’s human rights are guaranteed.

Somewhere in Lahore, there’s a facility guarded by armed police officers.It’s a shelter for women started by Jilani. She named it Dastak, the Urdu word for “knock”. Her idea was to welcome anyone who knocks at the door. Sixteen women, including some with children, live there.

Today, “Asian Voices” comes to you from Lahore, Pakistan. Our guest has been fighting to protect the rights of her fellow women.

Hina Jilani is a lawyer and human rights activist. She’s been fighting to improve human rights in Pakistan for more than 30 years.

It was here in Pakistan that Malala Yousafzai, who shared last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, was shot.
Pakistan has long struggled with violence against women and children. Some women are even killed by family members.

Abuse Victim: “If an iron bar were lying there, he’d hit me with it. If he saw a laundry pole or brick, he’d use that.”

In 1980, Jilani opened the country’s first all-female law practice. She has stood at the forefront of Pakistan’s human rights movement ever since.

Jilani also runs a shelter for battered women and helps them become self-reliant.

She drew on her experiences to lead the UN agency that promotes human rights. Jilani also belongs to The Elders, a non-governmental group whose members include former heads of state.

Jilani: “When women are harmed, they do not receive social support as they should. The whole society has to sit down together and to work out.”

We ask Jilani how Pakistan can become a country where the rights of all members of society are respected.

Late last year when we visited Pakistan, soldiers were on the alert and tensions were running high.
The trigger was an incident in December in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
An Islamic extremist group called the Pakistani Taliban attacked a school run by the army.
The militants randomly opened fire on students, killing more than 150.

The deadly attack targeting children stunned the nation.

Protester: “Raise your fist! Beat the terrorists!”

The shootings sparked a wave of anger across Pakistan. People are saying “no” to terrorism.
The government responded by resuming executions of death-row inmates and is stepping up measures against terrorism.

Islamic extremists have threatened to strike back, leading to concerns of further attacks.
How can Pakistan break out of this cycle of violence?

Most recently, in Pakistan, there was a tragic incident in Peshawar, on December 16th. What was your initial reaction when you came across the news?

I think it was a shock that went throughout the nation. But I think people need to understand that this is not the first terrorist attack that Pakistan has suffered. We have had several hundred terrorist attacks in the past few years only. One of the things that came out of this attack in Peshawar is a national resolve that terrorism has to end. This resolve should have come much earlier. I do believe that this is not something that we are victims of. This is something that we created, and are now experiencing the aftermath of our own actions.

A key factor behind the rise of Islamic extremists in Pakistan was the former Soviet Union’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.

Muslim soldiers known as the Mujahideen used guerilla tactics to resist the Soviets.
The government of Pakistan joined the United States in backing them. Pakistan also trained soldiers to send to Afghanistan.

Even after Soviet troops withdrew, Pakistan maintained a close relationship with Taliban leaders. And Pakistanis influenced by the Taliban spread extremism in Pakistan.

Hina Jilani being interviewed by NHK Senior Commentator Aiko Doden

Because of what was happening in the region at that time with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a deliberate attempt was made to create in this region some kind of a religious fervor in order that they could gather forces to fight in Afghanistan against the Soviets. This was something that was done as a joint venture by both the Pakistan military and the Western countries. We are really reaping the results of what was done at that time.

Of course, these acts of atrocities needs to be condemned. But it does seem, having read the newspaper for the past few days, that there is an outcry from the public for the resumption of execution. Would that be a direct deterrence to such acts?

Absolutely not. I do believe that the death penalty is a controversial issue in this country. I am against the death penalty, especially in countries where there are such fraud justice systems that the finality of a death sentence is certainly not acceptable. In the context of Pakistan and terrorism, I don’t think that this is going to in any way affect our struggle in the elimination of terrorism. What we need to do is, first of all, review our foreign and defense policies. Make sure that there is nothing in Pakistan’s security doctrine or policy that depends on outsourcing war to Jihadists. And this policy of Jihadism be totally eliminated. I think those are the things that need to be done. We need to make sure that in our school curriculum, hate literature is totally eliminated. Children are taught to live in a plural and diverse society that we are in. They are to be taught the values of tolerance, of adjustment, and of accommodation of pluralism.

Jilani has dedicated her career to protecting human rights for women and children.

This is Jilani’s law practice in Lahore. About 40 women come each day for consultations.

Jilani: “Tell us everything. Don’t be afraid.”

They include this 27-year-old woman. She says her husband demanded a divorce, and then she was almost killed.

Client: “I was riding home when I was shot 3 times by a man in a car. My husband wanted to kill me. He tried by throwing whatever was at hand.”

The first thing Jilani does when a woman comes seeking help is to offer reassurance.

Client: “My husband is trying to kill me.”

Jilani: “We will protect you. Tell the local police you’re being threatened. We lawyers will help you.”

Jilani decides to provide shelter for the woman and sue her husband for her living expenses.
The law office has pictures depicting domestic violence against women.
This one shows a woman whose nose is being sliced off. In another, a husband threatens to pour acid on his wife. Many women put up with such abuse in silence. But Jilani wants to help them understand that it must end.

It’s quite brutal.

Jilani: “It’s very brutal, and unfortunately this is a society that has accepted and tolerated a lot of brutality against women over the years. We hope that they are paid attention to by men and women who are coming to this office.”

Cartoon depicting an actual crime against a Pakistani wife.

Jilani is especially troubled by “honor killings.” For instance, a woman who marries a man without her family’s consent may be killed by her father or other relatives for tarnishing the family’s honor.

Last May, a 25-year-old woman was beaten to death with bricks by her father and other male relatives.

She married someone different from the man her family had chosen, and became pregnant.
In 2013, there were nearly 870 confirmed honor killings in Pakistan. But many cases are treated as family matters and are never reported to the police.

What factors do you think have been becoming great in the actual crimes of violence, honor killing in particular, in this country?

I think it’s mostly a social mindset that ordains control over women’s sexuality, over their autonomy. When women exercise their right of choice, women exercise their right to make a decision for themselves and to determine their own future, it is then that the family and the society react. You see, the perception here is that women are the property of the family.

They can be bartered away, their rights can be easily violated, the practices that lead to killings in the name of so-called honor because I believe that there is no honor in killing anyone. Then there are other issues that they link with this kind of feeling of honor, such as a view that women should not be in the public domain. Working women have been killed only because they went into the public domain without the consent of the family. So these are the kinds of things. As long as you can control women, and make sure that they do what you want them to do. For instance, there are these absolutely unacceptable practices of bartering women. If you have a family dispute, you will give away a woman as a compensation for resolving the dispute. So these kinds of practices, although now much less frequent, still exists. The problem of women is acute in this country and I have to say I’ve had several times when I have thought that the female population in this country is a population at risk.

In the cases of honor killings that can often happen, where the perpetrators of crimes can go about, set free.

We have laws that are deeply flawed. In cases of honor killing, there is, in fact complete impunity, which is supported by the law itself. And therefore, even the judiciary and the justice system cannot deliver justice to victims of honor killings.

Could you elaborate a little?

The general law of murder here is such where the family of the victim can forgive the accused. Now imagine a situation where a woman is killed by her own father or mother or brother. When she dies, her heirs are the same as those who have killed her and they forgive each other and the law is satisfied. This is the height of injustice.

You also speak about the culture of impunity. What do you mean by that?

The culture of impunity comes firstly because of the mindset of the society where what is unjust is not even recognized as unjust and people’s perception of justice has to be corrected. The rule of law is weak. State capacity to eliminate impunity and to ensure that people who suffer do get redressed, but that capacity is extremely weak and the political will is not there. It is a divided society, it is a class stratified society where influence and contacts, at many times, work in favor of those that do injustice and those that perpetrate fear and harm to other citizens.

Now, in the face of all the threats, you have relentlessly worked for the cause and continued your activism. And I understand it was in this office that you yourself were threatened.

Yes, there have been several such incidents. One such incident of course was the most extreme where one of my clients was killed right next to me by her own family unfortunately. When outside agencies organize themselves and form associations to protect women and other victims of family violence, the anger of the family and the society turns to these people. So then we have human rights defenders, especially women human rights defenders, who become the target of hatred, of violence. And hence human rights work, especially for women’s rights, has become a very dangerous business in such societies, especially mine.

It’s a shelter for women started by Jilani. She named it Dastak, the Urdu word for “knock”. Her idea was to welcome anyone who knocks at the door. Sixteen women, including some with children, live there.

Jilani: “Your pain is ours, too. We are in this together.”

Resident 1: “I’m relieved.”

Jilani: “We wish you well.”

Many of the residents fled abusive husbands. And some came after refusing marriages arranged by their families.

Could you tell me about your story?

Resident 2: “My parents forced me to get engaged to a relative. I was confined, and wasn’t allowed to see or talk to anyone. And they cursed at me.”

Women at the shelter can learn sewing, cooking, and accessory making. And as they fight in court, they prepare for the day they will stand on their own feet.

T-shirts and bags they make are sold in the neighborhood. This deepens the practical aspects of their training.

The children receive lessons similar to those taught at regular schools. Some of the funding for these activities comes from international NGOs and other groups.

A talk for shelter residents is held every two weeks. Jilani encourages the women to live independently.

Resident 3: “I was kicked out of my father’s house and lived at my uncle’s.”

Victims of domestic violence crafting to support themselves and their children.

You have this law office to provide the legal assistance and support, and you have also established a shelter to provide support for women in distress.

This shelter that we have actually started from my observation of the fact that while we are giving legal aid, that’s not the end of the problem for women. I am extremely worried about the fact that when women are harmed, they do not receive social support as they should. I am extremely worried that when women are harmed they do not have enough knowledge and information on what can be done to help them. Also I’m worried that sometimes when women come to us, we have very few tools in our hands to help them because as I said, the legal framework is inadequate many times. But more than the legal framework, the problem is that the state’s duty to protect is not complemented by the state actually setting up state mechanisms on the ground which can help victims. We have never refused a woman admission in this shelter.

We have certain criteria, but we try and accommodate as many as we possibly can. But at the same time, I know that the need for these shelters is much greater than what we are providing.

What are the priorities in encouraging those women in distress to be relieved of trauma and to rebuild their life?

So the first thing that we do is to inspire that woman and give her some confidence. Get her some psychological help so that she can overcome the trauma, show her the way in which she can resettle herself. And that the families or others who are seeking to harm them also then would know that this woman is not powerless. She has support, she can be helped, and she has become empowered because of that support.

NHK Senior Commentator Aiko Doden.

And it does seem like it’s a question of regaining one’s dignity.

The slogan of this shelter is “protection with dignity”, which means you do not give women protection by taking away all their other fundamental freedoms such as the freedom of movement, which is the policy largely of most of the public shelters in this country. I started this shelter with this vow that whatever I have to do and whatever I have to overcome, I will never put these women in a situation where they feel that their freedom of movement has been curtailed. These are adult-thinking, sub-juris, women. They have the right to make their choices. We are only there to help them and advice them when they need it.

This is a farming community in the suburbs of Lahore. We visited a former shelter resident who now supports herself.

49-year old Zainab Bibi makes a living by sewing. She used to suffer severe abuse from her husband almost daily.

Bibi: “If an iron bar were lying there, he’d hit me with it. If he saw a laundry pole or brick, he’d use that. When I got to the shelter, my head was bleeding and my leg was broken.”

Bibi stayed at the shelter for a year until her divorce was finalized. She later married someone else. With little money she had, she purchased a secondhand sewing machine and began working. Today she earns about 60 dollars a month, the average wage in this area.

So how is your life now?

Bibi: “Now I support myself. I can act as I wish. I feel free. I am happy now.”

After Bibi left the shelter, she was followed around for some time by her ex-husband. But her sense of danger has gradually diminished because she covers her face completely when she goes out.

Bibi: “My ex-husband didn’t recognize me because I hid my face. And I used to be thin, but I’m fat now.”

Zainab Bibi, successful graduate of the shelter now self employed.

When I met one of the graduates of the shelter, Zainab Bibi, I felt that she was really standing on her own feet. No, she did not fight for her rights by force, but it seems as though she fought for it by empowering herself.

That’s true. That’s true and all we can do is to help them empower themselves. Once they get this sense of empowerment, they’re capable of doing whatever they feel like. Many such women have been able to resettle themselves, despite the fact that the families have not been able to accept them again. They have not been able to go back to their families with the promise of safety within that family environment, but they have been able to do well themselves.

Female literacy rate in Pakistan is rather low, and the gap between the male and female literacy is very big, one of the largest in the world as well. That is not totally unrelated to the status of women perhaps?

Absolutely. I think it is a very major factor. However let me point out that although I am all for this concept that education helps build societies, education must not be equated with awareness. This is not an unaware society. Women are becoming more and more aware. Unfortunately, we are not targeting the society and the communities at large. If you just target women, they will become aware but then they will have this friction with the society whose level of awareness has not been raised parallel to that of women. It is a fact that if you treat women right, it is not just important for the women themselves, but it is important for the society itself.

In the face of threats and violence how do you keep yourself going all these years?

Look, there is no option. There is no option. How can you live in a country and a society? Look at all the injustice around you and turn your face away, how can you do it? I’m a lawyer, my first responsibility is to use my profession to strengthen social and legal remedies, and make it easier for people to live. I live in this society. I’m not necessarily doing it for everyone else. I’m doing it for myself too.

You have articulated many of the challenges that Pakistan faces, but if I were to see any hope, a ray of hope in advancing women’s rights, what would that be?

I think it would be a constant struggle. I don’t think the society’s ever become ideal. Nevertheless, to bring them to a state where discrimination and equality of opportunity exists would be a great accomplishment. People like us, human rights defenders, have patience and we invest a lot in the struggles. For us, success, although a very coveted achievement, is only a bonus.

So, in the future, where would your activities take you to? If I came back to Pakistan the next year and conducted an interview, would you still be saying it’s a constant struggle?

I will still be saying that there is a way forward to go. We have a lot to deal, to do. The day that I feel it is easier to do it will be the day that you will, perhaps, one day come and ask me and I will say I am still doing the same thing. But today, it’s easier than it was yesterday, and I hope that day will come. The struggle is there, we will always struggle. We just hope that it will become less and less painful.

allstaractivist note: My Mom and I recently visited the new Alta Bates Summit Comprehensive Cancer Center located on the Herrick Campus (Herrick Hospital) in my hometown of Berkeley, California. I was born at this hospital on November 26th, 1967 and my Mom and I were reminiscing.
They had just opened the brand new Cancer Center and everything was new, the chairs had never been used, some equipment was still wrapped in plastic. They were throwing a grand opening partyand about thirty doctors and nurses were in attendance. The Valet asked if we were here for the party and we replied, “No, we did’nt know there was one. How fortuitous, where is it?”. He then gave us directions and we rode the elevator up to the third floor I think, with an administrator dressed in a white sequined dress. She asked if we were patients and we said no. I then asked her if there were any efforts to find the causes of Cancer and she looked offended, as if I had asked the most preposterous question in the world. She gave an exaggerated shrug, rolled her eyes and exclaimed, “Who knows!” She then turned away from me and had nothing more to say.

The party was catered, there were wine coolers and hors d’oeuvres. Since we did’nt know anyone we kind of just did our own little tour. We checked out the recliner chairs complete with IV’s, the big screen TV’s, the Nurse’s Station and the pamphlets. Mom grabbed a wine cooler but as the driver, I abstained. It seemed a very exclusive club so we milled around a bit longer and left. We came, we saw, we left with pamphlets and a wine cooler. I wish that I could give you a more informative review of the place but all I can say is that it looked nice and was brand new. I understand that they have the Carol Ann Read Breast Health Center at the Summit Campus in Oakland, California, as a breast health and prevention center so you don’t get cancer in the first place, hopefully.

This is why I advocate taking the spice Turmeric everyday. Studies have found it to be one of the most powerful cancer fighting agents period. At the Indian store I go to, the family told me that a teaspoon in a glass of milk with sugar once a day is all it takes. I do it and enjoy the flavor, it just makes your poop and farts a little spicy smelling. 🙂 Ladies, TAKE THE TUMERIC, PLEASE!

Video: The journalist joins TODAY to talk about battling breast cancer and losing her hair. Dr. Lisa Newman, director of the Breast Care Center at the University of Michigan, then joins Luden and Hoda Kotb for discussion on the plaza about women fighting breast cancer today.

Joan Lunden Special to TODAY

Oct. 1, 2014 at 6:50 AM ET

TODAY is officially kicking off our “#PinkPower” series for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month where we’re celebrating survivors, supporting those currently battling cancer and remembering loved ones we’ve lost.

Special correspondent Joan Lunden shares what she’s learned since being diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer in June:

I’ve never dealt with a terrible illness of any kind — I’ve really been a picture of health. As for breast cancer, I felt like I was exempt because I didn’t have a bunch of relatives with the disease.

Then, I got the news in June.

I went in for a routine mammogram, as I do every year, and for a follow-up ultrasound, which doctors have recommended for me because I have dense fibrous breast tissue. As far as the mammogram was concerned, I was a picture of health, but when I got the ultrasound, I just knew something was wrong because they kept going back to the same place on my chest.

Doctors found two tumors in my right breast, both triple negative breast cancer, which means it’s more aggressive and faster growing. From the moment you hear the words ‘You have breast cancer,’ it’s almost like you’re shot out of a cannon. You are just propelled at this meteoric speed straight to a cancer surgeon.

Here are 10 things I wish I knew before I was diagnosed:

1.You have to be your own patient advocate

I never understood that after you hear those words, you’re met with differing opinions about how you should go forward. I went in for a second and third opinion and everybody had a different take. At one point, it’s tossed back into your hands and ultimately, you have to make the decision about treatment.

Every single breast cancer is different — that’s got to be front and center in your brain. You have to decide: just because it’s protocol, does that necessarily mean it’s right for you?

I had to decide: Was I going to do surgery first and then chemotherapy? Was I going to do chemotherapy in a way that it’s normally prescribed? I chose to do chemotherapy first, to shrink the tumors, followed by surgery.

2.Don’t worry about losing your hair

I’m not going to lie: Losing your hair is really weird. Hair is so part and parcel to your looks that when you take it away, it’s like someone drew a picture of you and they erased the hair. It’s still you — it just doesn’t look like you.

I posed bald for the People cover it because I know there are women out there who literally will say no to chemo because they’re so worried about losing their hair. That astonishes me because what’s the alternative? I’m totally 100 percent bald right now. But at some point, my hair is going to grow back and I’ll bet you that a year from now, I’ll look back on this as like a little curve in the road. It won’t define me and I’ll go on and I’ll be here for my children and my husband.

You need to stay in a healthy, positive mind set. I’m in warrior mode right now, which means taking care of yourself and believing you’re going to be OK in the end. And that’s important.

I didn’t break down crying when I was told I had breast cancer. For a long time, I didn’t even go through the thought process that I might die. But after reading about a woman who had died from triple negative breast cancer, I thought, I need to get everything in my life in order. Then, all of a sudden, I said stop. Don’t go there, you can’t allow yourself to do this, and I never did it again. It’s better for me to stay in the thought process that I will beat this no matter what.

4.Diet plays such a huge role in preventing and fighting cancer

Many things that we eat and drink are causing us to get cancer. All the garbage food that I ate along with every other American —processed, refined foods — I now look at it with eyes wide open. I see now how I unwittingly contributed to my own breast cancer.

Since my diagnosis, I have switched over to eating nutrient-dense, low-calorie foods that don’t cause any inflammation in my body. My nutritionist put me on a no-wheat, no-dairy, no-sugar eating regimen. I thought: What’s left when you take those away? But actually, there’s a lot left.

I eat lots of cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli and cauliflower. I also look for dark purple fruits and vegetables, like red cabbage, eggplant, beets, blueberries and blackberries.

When I was given an eating regimen that I was told could save my life, it became an empowering, life- saving eating program, not a diet of deprivation.

5.It’s important to become a voracious label reader

Sugar is added to almost everything we buy and eat. I stood in the aisle at Whole Foods one time and looked at 20 jars of spaghetti sauce and only two of them did not contain sugar. Start reading labels: I always considered myself a label reader, but I wasn’t. But boy, I am now.

When you’re going through chemotherapy, there are a lot of needles and I’ve always been a needle weenie, but you just have to learn to get over it. I went and got a port put into my upper left chest so that they could give me all my chemotherapy that way. It meant that they weren’t always going through the veins in my arm. Anyone going through chemotherapy should absolutely talk to their doctor about getting a port.

7.It’s especially important to eat right during chemo

Chemo doesn’t know the good cells from the bad cells, so it kills off a lot of your good cells, including those on the inner lining of your digestive tract. It’s almost like demons take over your belly. There’s just nothing normal about your digestive tract, but the cleaner you can eat – cutting out refined, processed, foods – that’s what allowed me to live normally. I didn’t deal with a lot of the usual chemo side effects.

8.Give yourself some TLC

Sometimes, chemo felt like they were dropping a napalm bomb on me. You have to learn to give into it. One day, my oncologist looked at me and said, “You walk in here and I ask you how you’ve been doing and you tell me, ‘I’m doing great, I played tennis, I did this, I worked out’ and then I look at your numbers and your white blood cell count is down. Those two things don’t match.”

She said, “I don’t think you even have the ability to perceive when you’re really tired. So for the next week, you have to rest.” And I followed her instructions. I’m such a Type A, go-go-go kind of person that whenever I’m tired, I really don’t stop to think about it, I just push through. I had to learn to stop pushing through. That was really hard for me to do, but I had to do it.

9.A support system is key

Always take someone with you to every appointment because it’s really hard to take it all in. You’re almost kind of in La-La land – it’s hard to explain it. You need someone there with you. I have found my strength in my family and my friends and they have just been completely amazing. One of them has been to every single appointment I have gone to.

I highly recommend starting a notebook and writing down everything – not you, the person who goes with you – to keep track of all that your doctor says. I’ve got all the notes. I’ll go back and think, what did they say to me at that point?

10.A mammogram is sometimes not enough

Be vigilant: Early detection gives you the best prognosis. You have to get checked. When you go in to get your mammogram, ask them: Are my breasts fatty tissue? Or are they dense fibrous tissue? You need to know that. If they say they’re dense and fibrous, you need to fight to get that ultrasound.

OSWIECIM, Poland – A decade ago, 1,500 Holocaust survivors traveled to Auschwitz to mark the 60th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation. On Tuesday, for the 70th anniversary, organizers are expecting 300, the youngest in their 70s.

“In 10 years there might be just one,” said Zygmunt Shipper, an 85-year-old survivor who will attend the event in southern Poland to pay homage to the millions killed by the Third Reich. In recent years, Shipper has been traveling around Britain to share his story with school groups, hoping to reach as many people as he can while he has the strength.

“The children cry, and I tell them to talk to their parents and brothers and sisters and ask them `why do we do it and why do we hate?”‘ he said. “We mustn’t forget what happened.”

But as the world moves inevitably closer to a post-survivor era, some Jewish leaders fear that people are already starting to forget. And they warn that the anti-Semitic hatred and violence that are on the rise, particularly in Europe, could partly be linked to fading memories of the Holocaust.

Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, says that the recent massacres in Paris, which targeted Jews and newspaper satirists, are proof of growing hatred and extremism. It’s a message he plans to stress in a speech Tuesday at the former site of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the Nazis killed more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews.

“Shortly after World War II, after we saw the reality of Auschwitz and the other death camps, no normal person wanted to be associated with the anti-Semitism of the Nazis,” Lauder said. “But, as the Holocaust grows more distant and survivors disappear, extremists grow more bold in targeting Jews. Stoked by a false narrative that blames Israel for a litany of the world’s problems, anti-Semitism is resurgent and deadly.”

Distance from the Holocaust is only one factor behind the rising anti-Semitism, and experts also fault the ease with which hateful propaganda is spread on the Internet and the growing presence of radical Islam in Europe. In Hungary and Greece, far-right movements have grown stronger amid economic decline.

“Fading memories are one reason for the rise in anti-Semitism, but anti-Semitism was always there,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League and a survivor himself. “We have hidden it, made it unacceptable, made it un-PC, but we never really eliminated it. The consciousness of what anti-Semitism was, of Auschwitz, was prevalent; it kept the lid on it. It wasn’t acceptable to be anti-Semitic.”

Despite the troubling trend, there are also reasons for hope. Mainstream society has become more vigilant, and Holocaust educators say that interest in the Holocaust keeps growing. Also, anti-Semitism remains a huge taboo for most politicians and mainstream societies in the West. Political opposition to anti-Semitism will be underlined by the presence Tuesday of the presidents of Germany, France and Poland, along with many other European leaders and royalty.

In Germany, which has stressed Holocaust education for years, leaders, media and most citizens show little tolerance for anti-Semitism. A recent example came just days ago, when a photo surfaced of an anti-immigrant leader, Lutz Bachmann, sporting an Adolf Hitler moustache and his hair combed over like the Fuehrer. Comments also emerged in which he called refugees “cattle” and “filthy.”

Though he called the photo a joke, German leaders and the media found nothing funny. Their condemnation was swift and resolute, and Bachmann immediately resigned from his role as a head of the anti-immigrant group he helped found, PEGIDA.

But condemnation of anti-Semitism hasn’t stopped it from growing in Muslim immigrant communities in Germany. Since the Gaza war last summer, there has been an increase in attacks against Israelis, synagogues and Jewish institutions. In Paris last summer anti-Israel protests turned violent, and anti-Jewish fury was on display in Belgium and Italy.

“Everybody is afraid, everybody,” said Levi Salomon, the spokesman for the Berlin Jewish Forum for Democracy and against Anti-Semitism which tracks anti-Semitic crimes and helps victims. “In Germany it is not as extreme as in other countries. We haven’t had any murder cases yet, but still people are worried.”

In recent years there have also been deadly attacks on Jews. Last May a shooting killed three people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and in 2012 a rabbi and three children were murdered in the French city of Toulouse.

One troubling question: Could anti-Semitism grow even more in coming years, when school children will no longer be able to have the life-altering experience of learning about the Holocaust directly from someone who was ripped away from a mother, who endured indescribable hunger, cold and torture, who witnessed chimneys spew out the smoke of burning bodies?

Holocaust educators are struggling to film as many survivor testimonies for future generations as possible, but there is no replacing the emotional impact of hearing directly from a survivor.

Eva Umlauf, an Auschwitz survivor who lives in Munich and also speaks to school classes, believes the culture of remembrance will inevitably change because “the era of the survivors is coming to an end soon” — she just doesn’t know how. She observes that German youth already have much greater emotional distance to the war than earlier generations.

“Their perception of the Holocaust is abstract. These kids are already the children of those born long after the end of the war — there isn’t really a direct connection anymore to the great-grandparents who lived at that time in Germany,” said Umlauf, who was born in 1942 in a labor camp for Jews in Slovakia. In November 1944, at the age of 23 months, she was taken to Auschwitz with her pregnant mother. Today the 72-year-old is believed to be the youngest survivor who will attend Tuesday’s commemorations.

Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev also laments that the world will be a poorer place without the survivors and the moral example they set. By and large, he says, they are individuals who saw the worst of humankind but still mustered the energy after the war to rebuild their lives, putting their faith again in humanity’s best side.

“The most astonishing fact for me and many others is that the heritage of the survivors is a very optimistic one,” Shalev said. “They didn’t come out of the war desperate and bitter human beings who wanted to take revenge.”

That optimism, Shalev says, gives many of them hope that the world will continue to remember what happened to them “maybe not for eternity — but for a long time.”

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This isn’t going to be an exhaustive report of all that is being inflicted upon me by the Gang Stalkers, just a quick statement. If other Targeted Individuals are going through this same type of harassment, then this is for you. No, you are not crazy. Yes, this is really happening and no, I do not know how it is being done. All I can offer right now is my personal testimony and mere speculation as to the technology employed. Alas, there are many things in our lives for which the same could be said. I wish that I could offer more to those suffering such as I however, I don’t have enough information yet. What I will tell you is to never give up and keep your spirits high, if you were not a decent person then you wouldn’t be getting attacked (unless they plan to recruit you later). If you have just started to experience the physical assaults, they may indeed approach you with an offer to stop if you join them. DON’T DO IT. All these people doing this are worshiping the Devil through their actions and are bound to a humiliating, agonizing end in Hell. Hell that is, unless they repent and ask Jesus to save them. Those who have had Near Death Experiences and returned have said that Hell is a prison where all you’ve done bad in life is inflicted back upon you by your fellow damned cellmates (there are many other creatures there too). You don’t want to share in that, do you?

I have been attacked by DEW weapons only three times that I know of, chemical/biological agents have been their mainstays. Noxious gases are blown into my face, wherever I go, day and night. There is no source that I can identify, it seems to come out of thin air. I can be alone or with people and still be attacked although when with people the attack seems to subside. I am attacked while attempting to sleep, sometimes preventing sleep. Were I to identify the poison gasses by smell, I would say that there are five different types. One seems to be an irritant as well as a poison, the others produce other various physical symptoms.

I could go into more detail however, I just don’t feel it that important. It almost seems as though the Gang Stalkers want TI’s to focus all of their attention on what is happening to them to the exclusion of all else. Their other goal seems to be to induce fear, terror, depression, hopelessness, loss of will to live etc., etc., I suppose if they could induce these emotions in a person, the attacks would accomplish their goals and nullify the TI. I will say that the attacks do make life a nuisance at times but then again, what contest in life isn’t? I don’t know about you but I’ve been given a job to do by the Almighty and I intend to finish it come what may, poison, torture, possible death notwithstanding. Ain’t none of us getting out of this life alive anyway, I want my journey to stand for something good.

What is really disturbing about the poisoning is what it implies, advanced technology. We all know that most tech comes from military R&D, the “Internet” that you are reading my blog on is one example. If they have tech so advanced that not only do they not need physical presence to effect people and objects at a distance, how safe are any of us? We would like to think that there are too many of us for them to defeat but with abilities like what I’m experiencing, do you really believe that? It begs the question, what is their true agenda?

I’ll be adding more to this post later on, right now I’m literally sick and tired from the non-stop gassing. I’ve got videos by Catherine Austin Fitts and Shield Of The Sun I’d like to include but right now, I have to try to sleep some more. Until tomorrow…

Okay, I’m back albiet a day late. Did I have you worried? Thought the Stalkers had gotten me for sure? Nope, not yet, not today. Probably someday, but for now the contest continues. I’m a little distracted right now because one of my favorite movies is on the Bounce network, Mercury Rising. Very maddening to think that the same people trying to destroy both me and my eighty year old mom are the same ones who murder little kids. Even more disgusting to know that law enforcement agencies participate and support such people. I’m not saying all Officers, I’ve come across decent ones, but I’ve also encountered evil ones too. Corporations, Clergy, Doctors, Nurses and ordinary people participate, all guilty of aiding and abetting the worst crimes imaginable. Participate in Gang Stalking and you support it all, your hands are dirty. You are a Nazi.

The poisoning continues, and for what? It seems super crazy that you have people who would go through so much effort and so much expense just to follow around and attempt to destroy an insignificant nobody, like me. Yet, history proves that there have been such jackasses in the past, many times before. I would like to say it’s all just in my nutty head except for the fact that it has all happened before. These periods are known as purges. The Soviets had them, the Germans had them, Africa has had them, China has had them (Falun Gong and Tienanmen Square) and now the Middle East with ISIL beheading Christians. We (The US) sponsor ISIS by the way, we equip and protect them. Just ask any vet whether they should still be intact or not if we really wanted to stop them. Could have been destroyed during that orderly convoy of equipment that we just handed over to them, in the desert. They are our’s and other allies new Bin Laden, the replacement for Al Queda, the new “Boogieman” to scare and attack us with. Again, the same people are responsible, the ones following me everywhere.

That’s another thing, I AM being followed everywhere I go. For what, I ask you, FOR WHAT? Today as I was at the Valero putting air in my Mom’s tires, every time I looked up someone was starring at me. At the FoodMaxx when I was getting water, eyes and faces turned towards me. Some may have been just folk but I’m confident many others were the Creeps. What does a guy getting water and air have to do with anything? A few days ago some woman ran into my mom’s car as I was backing out of a parking space. A provocation meant to cause me trouble. Shame on you for hitting an old lady’s car you assholes.

Anyway, as I’ve said earlier, my troubles with these POS’s are but a harbinger of things to come. I know they fully intend to kill me and are for the moment, attempting to make me remove myself through elaborate contrivances. It isn’t just me, it’s many people the world over. Those they can’t control must be eliminated and I don’t make a good slave. I will not worship the Beast nor the False Prophet. I will not comply with this world’s system of slavery and control. I can see it and I reject it. Unfortunately, my Bible tells me that they will eventually win and overcome Saints like me. This system of control is already thriving in a town near you, in your very town in fact. Maybe even in your own home. We are all so enslaved beyond what most people would believe. Privacy no longer exists for anyone and we are manipulated like marionettes every day of our lives. The velvet glove has not come off yet but the iron fist is on it’s way, I now doubt that it can be stopped.

Were it not for my love of Science Fiction and The Holy Bible, my current condition would be much harder to accept. I find it curious that so much truth would be allowed to reach us in creative pieces such as Star Trek, The Twilight Zone (they killed Rod Serling by the way), The Matrix etc. I’ve heard it said though, that those who are manipulating us must tell us what they are doing prior to execution, for the sake of Free Will. They need our acquiescence if not our complicity. I’ts a spiritual thing, like the Devil has rules he must abide by. The real horror for me is in realizing that all of those fantastic Sci-Fi works are for the most part, actually real. It’s one thing to look at something on the screen and imagine the possibilities, quiet another to personally fall victim to them. At once a confirmation and depressing shock, because this technology is in the hands of very evil people, the desperately wicked.

Poisoning, that’s what I was supposed to be talking about, wasn’t it? As you can see the topic isn’t high on my priorities list compared to other stuff. Let me see, what is the worst that they could do? I suppose if they can blow noxious gasses in your face from out of thin air, then they could also blow something lethal. They have already demonstrated that ability with the late, murdered actress Brittany Murphy and her husband, Simon Monjack. It stands to reason that if they can accomplish pushing through physical matter like gas, why not actual forces? I have been touched by things not there before, after learning about Gang Stalkers. My foot was lifted and taken off my ankle, uncrossing my legs. Not the first time something unseen has touched me. Parents witnessed both of my cleated feet simultaneously being pulled from beneath me on a Little League baseball field to keep my head from being hit by an older Pitcher who was a Ringer. My Angel saved me that time, Demons are responsible as of late. So, why can’t they just reach inside my body and break something? They could kill me in my sleep, couldn’t they? How about shove me into traffic or an oncoming BART Train? There is a video on Youtube showing that happening to two Swedish women. Honestly, I suspect they have some novel and horrific weapon I haven’t yet seen being readied for me, but that changes nothing. I will stand in opposition to them no matter what they do and I will never stop coming. I want a world of Justice, not tyranny.

So, it continues, they continue and I continue. One fine day it will be over, when God says my work here is done. Until then, I have absolutely no intention of slowing down in my fight against evil. The best way to accomplish that is by turning the enemy into fellow Christians. A seemingly tough sell but not really, the alternative being eternal torment. “Fear not those who can kill the body only, but fear Him who can kill both body and soul in Hell.” I along with millions of others, answer to the highest authority and Him alone;

Edwards Snowden has leaked more information to the German newspaper, Der Spiegel. The leaked slides show that the Department of Defense knows that Chinese hackers, possibly working for the cyber division of the People Liberation Army, stole the plans for the stealth Joint Strike Fight F-35, also called the Lightning II.

China has recently shown off a prototype Shenyang J-31, which bears a striking resemblance to both the F-22 Raptor and the F-35. One senior military official who declined to be named said, “this is billions of dollars of combat advantage for China. They’ve just saved themselves 25 years of research and development. It’s nuts.”

A Chinese J-31 stealth fighter performs at the Airshow China 2014 in Zhuhai, south China’s Guangdong province on November 11, 2014. This aircraft was likely built using data stolen by Chinese hackers on the F-35. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

The Shenyang J-31 is quite possibly equal to the F-22 Raptor, maybe even superior in some regards. The resemblance is at least strikingly similar. Having a stealth air superiority fighter jet would further diminish the influence of U.S. military assets.

The barrage of cyber attacks, most of which originate from China and Iran, have earned their own codename. They have been dubbed “Byzantine Hades” by Department of Defense. The slides released by Snowden show that the Department of Defense has had over 30,000 incidents, of which over 500 were deemed “significant intrusions.” The cost to “assess damage, rebuild networks” is shown to be over $100 million.

A Chinese official was quick to deny these allegations: “The so-called evidence that has been used to launch groundless accusations against China is completely unjustified,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters, “according to the materials presented by the relevant person, some countries themselves have disgraceful records on cyber security.”

allstaractivist note: I find this latest Snowden revelation particularly disturbing since it has been known for quite some time that the F-22 Raptor has a critical design flaw which makes pilot’s sick. The “fresh air” intake that is supposed to supply pilots with breathable air is actually collected from the exhaust system of the aircraft! That’s right, just like sticking one end of a garden hose in your tailpipe and the other through the window. WTF?! My opinion is that the Air Force really wants to move to drones exclusively and get rid of human pilots altogether. Why you ask? Well for one reason, a robot won’t refuse an order to kill innocent Americans when ordered to. Second reason, a robot is much, much cheaper. No veteran’s benefits, no G.I. Bill, no salary beyond maintenance, no survivors benefits when killed, no food beyond fuel (nuclear powered), no need for training, no need for lodging, no need for JAG, no need for jails, hospitals, entertainment (USO), etc., etc., etc.

Chinese hackers? Considering what I just said, I wouldn’t put it past the DOD and the defense contractors it works with to have just handed over the F-22 plans to the Chinese. Doing so would justify the move to drones (which can be deployed faster and in greater numbers) as well as facilitate the speedy and orchestrated downfall of America. With America attacked, trashed and on her knees, the rebuild would force inclusion in a one world global entity. I believe this to be the intention for all sovereigns in time.

Pilot Sidelined after Criticizing F-22 System

The Air Force has spent tens of millions of dollars over the past two years correcting problems with its premier jet fighter — issues that Capt. Joshua Wilson helped expose by speaking up, both to his bosses and on national television.

Since then, Wilson’s career as an F-22 Raptor pilot has stalled. A member of the Virginia Air National Guard’s 149th Fighter Squadron, Wilson hasn’t been permitted to fly the jet since early 2012. He’s fighting disciplinary actions that he sees as retribution for going public.

“I’m a fighter pilot. I worked my entire life to get in the cockpit and to that job,” said Wilson, who is 37. “Right now, I’m fighting the Air Force when I should be fighting our enemies.”

Almost two years ago, Wilson and Maj. Jeremy Gordon told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that the F-22 had a defective oxygen system that was endangering pilots.

The veteran aviators, dressed in their Virginia Air National Guard flight suits, shared their personal accounts of mid-flight oxygen deprivation that left them disoriented. Other pilots had similar life-threatening experiences but were reluctant to speak publicly, they said.

The Pentagon’s top brass took notice.

Then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta demanded that Air Force leaders accelerate their efforts to fix the problem. He asked NASA and the Navy to help, and he restricted Raptor flights so pilots experiencing problems would be close to a landing field. Members of Congress weighed in, too.

Back at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia Air National Guard leaders were also taking action. Even before the “60 Minutes” segment aired in May 2012, the squadron’s leadership began a series of punitive measures against Wilson.

In April 2012, they stopped his planned promotion to major, and they threatened to take away his wings, jeopardizing his military career.

They also forced him out of his full-time desk job with the Air Force’s Air Combat Command at Langley.

During that time, Wilson alerted the Department of Defense’s office of inspector general, which is investigating. He and his lawyers say the Virginia Air National Guard’s actions are reprisal for speaking out.

Cotton Puryear, a Virginia National Guard spokesman, declined to discuss the actions against Wilson. Guard leaders are waiting for the inspector general’s probe to be completed before they “take appropriate action to resolve any outstanding issues,” Puryear wrote in an email.

No such disciplinary problems haunt Maj. Jeremy Gordon, who sat next to Wilson in the interview with “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl. Gordon, a decorated pilot who flew anF-16 in the Iraq War, voluntarily stopped flying the Raptor in mid-2012. He remains a part of the squadron, flying a T-38 trainer jet.

“There are not and never were any personnel actions initiated regarding Maj. Gordon,” Puryear wrote.

Wilson said he has refused overtures from his leaders to walk away. He wants a chance to clear his reputation and get back in the cockpit.

“If you guys can prove I’m a bad officer, kick me out of the military,” he said. “If not, let me get back to my job. Let me get back to what I love to do, what I’m good at and what I trained my entire life to do.”

U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican and Air National Guard pilot, said he believes Wilson is being punished both for speaking out and for aggressively pushing, internally, to solve equipment problems.

“I have no doubt that this is reprisal,” said Kinzinger, who attended officer training with Wilson a dozen years ago and helped arrange the “60 Minutes” interview. “There’s no excuse for what’s happened…. I think they basically believe they could outlast Josh.”

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia has also pressed the Air Force to fix the plane and is critical of how Wilson has been treated.

Warner said Wilson’s treatment doesn’t necessarily constitute reprisal. “But I am going to say something doesn’t smell right when the Air Force has had to acknowledge there’s a problem and takes a fix. And somebody is still hanging out two years later with his career in jeopardy,” Warner said.

The F-22, which entered active service in 2007, was plagued with problems with its oxygen system. Pilots reported hypoxia-like symptoms, including becoming disoriented, nauseous and extremely fatigued. In November 2010, an Alaska-based Raptor crashed, killing the pilot, after the plane’s oxygen system malfunctioned.

Wilson’s firsthand experience came on Feb. 16, 2011, when he became so disoriented while flying off the Virginia coast that he was unaware his hand movement on the controls was causing his plane to rock. He had unknowingly changed his radio frequency so that ground control couldn’t reach him, and he couldn’t read his own writing. Sensing he was having a problem, he tried to find the emergency oxygen supply ring he knew was on the left side of his seat. But in his bewildered state, he couldn’t find it.

When he finally engaged the backup air supply, Wilson’s head cleared, and he landed at Langley. Afterward, he suffered severe headaches, vertigo and bouts of exhaustion. It was only after three stints in a hyperbaric chamber — used to treat oxygen deprivation — that Wilson felt he had recovered.

A few months later, the Air Force grounded the entire Raptor fleet.

When the F-22 was cleared to fly again in September 2011, the Air Force had added a charcoal filter to the breathing system in the hopes of trapping contaminants. But that fix appears to have presented new problems.

In the months that followed, pilots discovered the filters were releasing charcoal dust inside their oxygen hoses. The result, according to a letter Wilson’s lawyer sent to the inspector general: coughing fits and other respiratory ailments.

Members of the squadron, including Wilson, told their commander they wanted to fly without the filter but were informed that anyone who refused would face disciplinary action.

After about 40 hours of flying with the filter, Wilson developed an “uncontrollable cough, dry, scratchy, sore throat and the inability to take a deep breath,” he said in a memo sent to Col. David Nardi, then commander of the 192nd Operations Group.

Feeling that not all pilots were reporting problems with the Raptor, a small group of officers at Langley — including Wilson and medical personnel — developed a confidential survey for F-22 pilots. They wanted to learn more details about symptoms of oxygen deprivation from aviators, who are generally reluctant to discuss health problems that might ground them. Before it could be administered, the 106-question survey was rejected by Virginia Air National Guard and Air Force leaders.

Wilson didn’t stop asking questions, though. He sent several emails to senior Guard officers asking specifically about the charcoal filter and other health monitoring equipment that Raptor pilots had begun to wear.

He acknowledged both those activities irritated his commanders, but his resistance to flying with the charcoal filter appears to be the central issue in the disciplinary action against him.

In the early months of 2012, pressure from his superiors to fly using the filter grew more intense. They would demand he fly with the filter; he would respond by saying that an Air Force flight doctor and a pulmonologist advised him that doing so would damage his lungs.

Things came to a head in April 2012. Wilson described the chain of events in a complaint letter to the inspector general:

In an April 5 meeting, Col. Howard Purcell, the vice wing commander, pressed him to fly with the filter and told him his expected promotion to major — in the works for several months — had been suspended.

That evening, Nardi called Wilson to tell him that he was no longer permitted to work at Air Combat Command, where he was involved in planning air security during the 2012 presidential election. As a Guard pilot, he needed Nardi’s permission for the desk job, which paid $60,000 a year — most of his income.

A little more than two weeks later, Nardi gave Wilson a letter of reprimand for failing to fly the F-22.

The April 21 letter made no mention of Wilson’s explanation that his military doctors told him not to fly with the filter. Nardi also wrote that Wilson needed to “immediately rectify” his combat-ready status by flying the F-22 or he would “face far more severe consequences, to include the untimely end of your military career.”

If the reprimand was meant to provoke Wilson to get back in the cockpit, he wasn’t given much time to comply. The next day, the Virginia Air National Guard blocked him from flying.

On April 22, he was given a second letter, this one signed by Col. Thomas Wark, Nardi’s boss, stating that a flying evaluation board would convene to consider whether to take away Wilson’s wings — and his livelihood. His aviation privileges were suspended immediately.

“Your apparent fear of flying the F-22 is evidence of a habit, trait of character or personality characteristic that makes it undesirable for the command to continue using you in flying duties,” Wark wrote.

The correspondence noted Wilson had been reprimanded a day earlier and said his failure to fly “constitutes a conscious decision” not to meet training requirements. It did not mention that military physicians had told Wilson that he should not fly with the filter.

Wilson insisted he never refused to fly the F-22; he asked for a waiver to fly without the filter and was denied.

Even as Wilson was being pressed to fly with the charcoal filter, senior Air Force leaders had decided to stop using it. The canisters were removed in April 2012 partly because they were making it more difficult for pilots to breathe — exacerbating the problem they were attempting to solve.

Four years of reviews by his superiors at Langley and in New Jersey, where he flew the F-16, were filled with praise and talked of his promise as an officer.

In February 2012, the Virginia Guard leadership called him a “premier tactician” who was making “outstanding progress” in flight lead upgrade training that would prepare him for a leadership role. His commander wrote that Wilson was “one of my top wingmen” and a “superb officer, aviator and volunteer.”

But the tone turned sharply critical — bordering on sarcastic — in a review written after he went public about the F-22.

It described Wilson as an “average officer” during 2012. Without mentioning his television appearance, the review, which Nardi approved, described Wilson as a “photogenic, driven and vocal officer; willing to express and share views regarding F-22A operations at all levels.”

Maj. Gordon, who appeared on “60 Minutes” with Wilson, declined to be interviewed for this report.

Given Gordon’s war record and aviation experience, his decision to stop flying the F-22 apparently troubled Gen. Mark Welsh III, the Air Force chief of staff. The four-star general, who, like Gordon, began his career as an F-16 pilot, telephoned Gordon last year to ask whether he wanted to fly the F-22 again, according to a source familiar with the conversation. Gordon declined.

The Air Force says it has significantly addressed the Raptor’s oxygen system problems, and it notes there haven’t been any unexplained physiological incidents in more than two years. It is installing a new backup emergency oxygen system in the Raptor that starts automatically when sensing a pilot is having trouble. As of last week, the system has been installed in 20 of Langley’s 46 Raptors. All are expected to be upgraded by September.

Wilson said he is glad that the plane is being fixed but is frustrated his career remains in limbo. The inspector general’s office, which has visited Langley for interviews, hasn’t indicated when it will conclude its investigation.

Despite the controversy, Wilson said, he’s never lost his love of the F-22.

“It’s a huge honor to fly this airplane…. It’s an unbelievable machine,” he said.

He doesn’t regret his activism.

“Somebody’s got to take a stand,” Wilson said. “It’s no doubt that if we had continued on the path we were on, we would’ve had another accident…. We were waiting for it to happen.”

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